Evaluation of ultra wideband (UWB) signal transmission, propagation and reception with low cost UWB RF front end

Author

Yeap, Y.W. ; Chai, O.M. ; Law, C.L.

Author_Institution

Sch. of Electr. & Electron. Eng., Nanyang Technol. Univ., Singapore

fYear

2004

fDate

5-6 Oct. 2004

Firstpage

72

Lastpage

75

Abstract

We present ultra wideband signal measurements in an indoor environment using a simple UWB transmitter and receiver at some defined ranges. At the transmitter side, the UWB source is generated using a low cost sub-nanosecond impulse generator, triggered by a rectangular pulse, and transmitted with SkyCross´s UWB antenna. At the receiver side, the UWB signal is received by SkyCross´s UWB antenna and subsequently amplified by an ultra wideband low noise amplifier (LNA). The frequency spectrum and time domain waveform of the UWB signal, transmitted and received over defined ranges, is presented. The primary study in this paper is to demonstrate short-range low power UWB signal transmission, propagation and reception and its simplicity of implementation.

Keywords

indoor radio; pulse generators; radio receivers; radio transmitters; radiowave propagation; ultra wideband antennas; ultra wideband communication; UWB antenna; UWB propagation; UWB receiver; UWB reception; UWB transmitter; impulse generator; indoor environment; low cost UWB RF front end; short-range low power transmission; signal frequency spectrum; signal time domain waveform; ultra wideband low noise amplifier; ultra wideband signal transmission; Antenna measurements; Costs; Indoor environments; Pulse amplifiers; Pulse generation; RF signals; Radio frequency; Transmitters; Ultra wideband antennas; Ultra wideband technology;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

RF and Microwave Conference, 2004. RFM 2004. Proceedings

Print_ISBN

0-7803-8671-X

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/RFM.2004.1411079

Filename

1411079